feel

About 120.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To use or experience the sense of touch. To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

   You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.

2. verb To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.

   You can feel a heartbeat if you put your fingers on your breast.

3. verb To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.

   I felt my way through the darkened room.

4. verb To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
5. verb To search by sense of touch.

   He felt (about) for the light switch in the dark.

6. verb To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

   I can feel the sadness in his poems.

7. verb To experience an emotion or other mental state about.

   I can feel the sadness in his poems.

8. verb To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.

   I feel that we need to try harder.

Similar words

sense find spirit experience look flavor tone smell palpate finger

Often followed by

that the like a it as about better more

Word family

all the feels feeling feels felt right in the feels